"white tern" meaning in English

See white tern in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: white terns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} white tern (plural white terns)
  1. A small seabird, Gygis alba, found across the tropical oceans of the world. Synonyms: fairy tern
    Sense id: en-white_tern-en-noun-g4vRY7Ae Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "white terns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "white tern (plural white terns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small seabird, Gygis alba, found across the tropical oceans of the world."
      ],
      "id": "en-white_tern-en-noun-g4vRY7Ae",
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "seabird",
          "seabird"
        ],
        [
          "Gygis alba",
          "Gygis alba#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "tropical",
          "tropical"
        ],
        [
          "ocean",
          "ocean"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fairy tern"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white tern"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "white terns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "white tern (plural white terns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small seabird, Gygis alba, found across the tropical oceans of the world."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "seabird",
          "seabird"
        ],
        [
          "Gygis alba",
          "Gygis alba#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "tropical",
          "tropical"
        ],
        [
          "ocean",
          "ocean"
        ],
        [
          "world",
          "world"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "fairy tern"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white tern"
}

Download raw JSONL data for white tern meaning in English (0.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.